How to get to Liaobin Ancient City and Liaobin Tower more conveniently?

Transportation guide to Liaobin Ancient City and Liaobin Tower: Take a train from Shenyang City to Xinmin City. The drive takes about an hour. Transfer to a minibus to Liaobin Tower

In Liaobin Village, 29 kilometers northeast of Xinmin City, there are the ruins of a thousand-year-old city. This ancient city is located at the intersection of the Liao River and the Xiushui River. It was a famous ferry and transportation artery in ancient times, and was also a battleground for military strategists.

As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, this place had become an important military town. The Liao Dynasty was the most prosperous golden period in its history. The rulers of Liao promoted the prosperity of this place, established the Liaozhou administrative office here, and also immigrated in large numbers from Jizhou. Later, the long-term war caused serious damage to this prosperous ancient city.

Liaobin Ancient City is square in shape, covering an area of ??about 110,000 square meters. The city walls are made of rammed earth, and there are two gates in the north and south. The famous Liaobin Pagoda was built on a hill southwest of the ancient city site. It is built with bricks, has octagonal and thirteen floors, and has a solid dense eaves style. The tower is about 44 meters high. There are niches on each side of the tower body, and there are carved Buddha statues and sitting Buddhas. There are two apsaras dancing gracefully above, and there are two attendants on each side of the Buddha statue. Due to the age and severe weathering, the tower body has become dilapidated.

In recent years, the Shenyang Municipal Cultural Relics Management Department has carried out comprehensive maintenance on the ancient pagoda, and it has now restored its old style. During the maintenance of the ancient pagoda, the underground palace of the pagoda was opened, and a number of precious relics including Buddha's teeth and relics were unearthed. Among them, the ring-footed bucket-shaped rust-patterned celadon bowl was made in the Tang Dynasty or the Five Dynasties period and is very rare. Treasure.